Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (1890 (or 1891?) -- 12 January 1976)

British crime fiction and mystery? writer. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1971. Published over 80 books and other works. Also used pen name [Mary Westmacott]? for romantic novels.

Famous characters include Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple.

Books:

• 1920 [The Mysterious Affair at Styles]? (her first book and introducing Hercule Poirot)
• 1922 [The Secret Adversary]? (introducing Tommy and Tuppence)
• 1923 [Murder on the Links]?
• 1924 [The Man in the Brown Suit]?
• 1925 [The Secret of Chimneys]?
• 1927 [The Big Four]?
• 1928 [The Mystery of the Blue Train]?
• 1929 [The Seven Dials Mystery]?
• 1930 [The Murder at the Vicarage]? (introducing Jane Marple)
• 1930 [The Mysterious Mr Quin]? (introducing Mr Harley Quin)
• 1931 [The Sittaford Mystery]?
• 1932 [Peril at End House]?
• 1933 [Sad Cypress]?
• 1933 [The Hound of Death]? (twelve short mysteries)
• 1933 [Lord Edgware dies]?
• 1934 [Murder on the Orient Express]?
• 1934 [Parker Pyne investigates]? (twelve short mysteries)
• 1934 [The Listerdale mystery]? (twelve short mysteries)
• 1935 [Three Act Tragedy]?
• 1935 [Why didn't they ask Evans?]?
• 1936 [The ABC Murders]?
• 1936 [Murder in Mesopotamia]?
• 1936 [Cards on the Table]?
• 1937 [Death on the Nile]?
• 1937 [Dumb Witness]?
• 1938 [Appointment with Death]?
• 1938 (1939?) Ten Little Niggers (also known as And Then There Were None, Ten Little Indians)
• 1939 [Murder is Easy]?
• 1939 [Hercule Poirot's Christmas]?
• 1941 [Evil under the Sun]?
• 1941 [N or M?]?
• 1941 [One, Two, Buckle my Shoe]?
• 1942 [The Body in the Library]?
• 1942 [Five little pigs]?
• 1942 [The Moving Finger]?
• 1944 [Towards Zero]?
• 1944 (1945?) [Sparkling Cyanide]?
• 1945 [Death comes as the End]?
• 1946 [The Hollow]?
• 1947 [The Labours of Hercules]? (twelve short mysteries)
• 1948 [There is a Tide]? (also known as Taken at the Flood)
• 1949 [Crooked House]?
• 1950 [A Murder is Announced]?
• 1951 [They came to Baghdad]?
• 1952 [Mrs McGinty's dead]?
• 1953 [A Pocketful of Rye]?
• 1953 [After the Funeral]?
• 1953 [Death in the Clouds]?
• 1955 [Hickory Dickory Dock]?
• 1955 [Destination Unknown]?
• 1956 [Dead Man's Folly]?
• 1957 [4.50 from Paddington]?
• 1957 [Ordeal by Innocence]?
• 1959 [Cat Among the Pigeons]?
• 1961 [The Pale Horse]?
• 1962 [The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side]?
• 1963 [The Clocks]?
• 1964 [A Caribbean Mystery]?
• 1965 [At Bertram's Hotel]?
• 1966 [Third Girl]?
• 1967 [Endless Night]?
• 1968 [By the Pricking of my Thumbs]?
• 1969 [Hallowe'en Party]?
• 1970 [Passenger to Frankfurt]?
• 1971 /Nemesis?
• 1972 [Elephants can remember]?
• 1973 [Postern of Fate]?
• 1974 [Poirot's Early Cases]? (eighteen short mysteries)
• 1975 /Curtain?
• 1976 [Sleeping Murder]?
• ? [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]?

Co-authoring:

• 1931 [The Floating Admiral]? written together with G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L Sayers and certain other members of the Detection Club.

Writing as Mary Westmacott:

• 1930 [Giant's Bread]?
• 1934 [Unfinished Portrait]?
• 1947 [The Rose and the Yew Tree]?
• 1952 [A Daughter's a Daughter]?
• 1956 [The Burden]?